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(Application led Juzlc 13, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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` INDIANA.

PNEUMATEG STRAVV=STACKER SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 680,761, dated. August 20, 1901.

Application tiled June 13, 1901. Serial No. 64,414, (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may con/carre:

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. BURTON and EDWARD M. BURTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Royal Center, in the county of Cass and State `of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pneumatic Straw-Stackers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to pneumatic strawstackers.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved form of deflector at the discharge end of the pneumatic straw-stacker tube, whereby better control may be had of the straw and the proper stacking of the straw be insured.

IVith this and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the discharge end of a straw-stacker equipped with our improved deflector. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the detlector and its supportingrod, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view.

In the drawings, A denotes the pneumatic straw-'stacker tube, and B the deilector. In shape the deiiector is concaved-that is, the side adjacent to the discharge-opening of the stacker-tnbe-and is provided with an angular enlargement directly in advance of the discharge end to divide the air and straw and to deiiectit slightly to one side. The enlargement is preferably formed by pressing or stamping the material, and its lower end comes to a point, as shown in Fig. 1. When the straw and air strike this enlargement, the tendency is to spread the straw and air laterally and more evenly divide it, so that as it falls downwardly it will lie in smooth and even strata.

It will be noticed that the lower edge of the deector is dished or turned inwardly toward the discharge end of the stacker-tube and that the upper edge of the deiector :is likewise turned inwardly in the same direction, so as to reduce to a minimum the liability of the straw being forced past the edges of said defiector.

Any suitable means may be provided for connecting the deflector to the stacker-tube, that shown being preferred and consisting of a rod C, which extends parallel with the tube and is connected thereto by collars D, which permit of the rod being moved inwardly or outwardly to adjust the deliector with respect to the discharge end of the tube. The outer end of the rod is provided with a downwardly-projecting hinged extension E, which projects through strap-bearings F, secured to the back of the detlector in the crease formed by the stamping or bulging inwardly of the material to form the angular enlarge-` ment. The lower end of the hinged eXtension is provided with a hook which engages a notch formed in the lowermost strap. The deiiector cords or cables may extend from the sides of the deflector for turning it upon its axis to deflect the straw as may be desired, and' suitable means may be employed for swinging the deilector inwardly and outwardly-that is to say, swinging it vertically at an angle to the axis of the straw-stacker tube; but as this means forms no part of the present invention it is not deemed necessary to show or describe it in detail.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and details of construction may be made within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacriicing any of the advantages thereof.

I-Iaving thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A concaved deflector for Y pneumatic straw-stackers, provided with an angularenlargement on its concaved face, substantially as set forth.

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2. A ooncaved deector for pneumatioJ straw-stackers, provided with an angular enlargement on its ooneaved face, said enlargement decreasing in Width from its top to its bottom, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination With a supporting-rod having a hinged extension, of a deieetor pivoted to said hinged extension to rotate about the vertical axis, substantially as set forth.

l CHARLES W. BURTON. EDWARD M. BURTON.

Witnesses:

CHRIS. GUGLE, JAMES F. HARVEY. 

